H. G. Wells Quotes, Artist Quotes, Wish Quotes

You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

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It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Wish Quotes , Firsts Quotes

When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Want Something Quotes , Wish Quotes

It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, 'I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tired of being all alone here!

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Tired Quotes , Wish Quotes

Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wish Quotes , Ships Quotes

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing

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Tags : Alan Ladd Quotes , Wish Quotes , Use Quotes

You aren't what I expected. I wish you were. It'd be so much easier.

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Tags : Abbi Glines Quotes , Wish Quotes , Easier Quotes

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Marriage Quotes , Wish Quotes

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Men Quotes , Wish Quotes

I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Mind Quotes , Wish Quotes

From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Fear Quotes , Wish Quotes

Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.'

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Cat Quotes , Wish Quotes

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Wish Quotes , Desire Quotes

You know, obviously I wish the violence would go down, but not as much as the Iraqi citizens would wish the violence would go down. But, incredibly enough, they showed great courage, and they want our help.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Wish Quotes , Violence Quotes

Wishing will not make it so. The Lord expects our thinking. He expects our action. He expects our labors. He expects our testimonies. He expects our devotion.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Wish Quotes

The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats. It is not permitted to you to wish to add another's advantages or possessions to your own; you are permitted only to wish to be another.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Games Quotes , Wish Quotes

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Wish Quotes

We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Waiting Quotes , Wish Quotes

When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious.

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Tags : Alan Ruck Quotes , Drama Quotes , Wish Quotes

I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Inspire Quotes , Wish Quotes